ISSUE II. — VYATKA 1890

## Production of Spinning Wheels

. . . With an increase in the number of persons engaged in the trade, earnings gradually declined, which was perhaps further aided by the ever-increasing spread among the peasant milieu of the use of factory cotton fabrics.

. . . In Vyatka Province there are still many corners, especially in the north, where the spinning wheel is almost unknown. It is in precisely such places that, with the appearance of spinning wheel makers in them, the trade might, it seems to us, arise anew.

## The Chest-Making Trade

NB

In moral terms, this trade must be counted as one of the most sympathetic, since all the work from beginning to end takes place in the midst of one's own family and domestic setting, where each chest-maker throughout the entire week from early morning to late evening is occupied with his work, and therefore has no time to go about visiting neighbors or taverns. . .

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